Butler has announced the game times and national exposure for the 2025-26 women's basketball schedule.
The upcoming season marks the first year of a six-year BIG EAST media agreement, which will span from 2025-26 through 2030-31, encompassing coverage on FOX Sports (FOX, FS1), NBC Sports (NBC, Peacock), and TNT Sports (TNT, TBS and truTV). The agreement will provide comprehensive national broadcast, cable, and direct-to-consumer streaming coverage of BIG EAST women's and men's basketball games. ESPN+ will also stream a minimum of 75 women's basketball games.
- Once again, all of Butler's games will be available to a national audience.
- Butler's home game against defending national champion Connecticut is scheduled for a 4 p.m. tip on Sunday, Dec. 28 at Hinkle Fieldhouse. The Huskies' visit to Hinkle Fieldhouse last season was a sell-out, setting a new Butler Women's Basketball single-game attendance record with 9,100 fans.
- The Dec. 28 game against UConn will air on TNT and truTV. Butler's road game at Connecticut (in Hartford Saturday, Feb. 7) will tip at Noon and air on FS1.
- Butler's regular season finale, a home game against Seton Hall Sunday, March 1, will tip at 3:30 p.m. and air on Peacock.
- Butler's regular season opener, a Monday, Nov. 3 tip against Wright State, will tip at 11 a.m. at Hinkle Fieldhouse as the Bulldogs welcome area students for the program's annual Kids Day Game.
- Twenty-two (22) Butler games will air on ESPN+ this season.
- Butler's home BIG EAST schedule includes five weekend games (three Sunday tips, one Saturday game and a Friday night tilt) and five on Wednesdays.
- Both of Butler's games as part of the 2025 Elevance Health Women's Fort Myers Tip-Off (Nov. 28-29) will air on ION.
- Butler's road game at Indiana Wednesday, Nov. 19 does not yet have a tip time nor television designation announced.
Season tickets remain on sale, providing the best seating locations still available for the upcoming season. Contact the Butler Ticket Office at
tickets@butler.edu or 317-940-DOGS (3647) to place your order. Single-game tickets for the 2025-26 Butler Women's Basketball season went on sale beginning today (Thursday, Oct. 2) and are available through ButlerSports.com/BuyTickets.
The Bulldogs have earned back-to-back WNIT berths under head coach
Austin Parkinson. The 2025-26 roster features three returners, seven transfers and two freshmen.
Lily Zeinstra is the top returning scorer for the Bulldogs after averaging 7.6 points and 2.9 rebounds per game as a freshman. Butler's incoming transfers include 2023-24 Southern Conference Freshman of the Year
Kennedy Langham (Samford), ESPN's No. 60 recruit in the Class of 2024
McKenna Johnson (Minnesota), 2024-25 America East Conference Sixth Player of the Year
Caroline Dotsey (Maine), twins
Nevaeh Jackson and
Saniya Jackson from Valparaiso,
Mallory Miller (Arizona State), and
Gabby Wilke (South Dakota).